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legendary-frauds-reveal-workings-our-world
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Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance
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Friday, October 16, 2020
12
p.m. – 1 p.m
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The way most white-collar crime works is by manipulating institutional psychology. That
means creating something that looks as much as possible like a normal set of transactions. The
drama comes later, when it all unwinds.
Financial crime seems horribly complicated, but there are only so many ways you can con
someone out of what’s theirs. In
Lying for Money
, veteran regulatory economist and market
analyst Dan Davies tells the story of fraud through a genealogy of fi nancial malfeasance,
including: the Great Salad Oil swindle, the Pigeon King International fraud, the fi ctional
British colony of Poyais in South America, the Boston Ladies’ Deposit Company, the
Portuguese Banknote Affair, Theranos, and the Bre-X scam. Davies brings new insights into
these schemes and shows how all frauds, current and historical, belong to one of four
categories ("long fi rm," counterfeiting, control fraud, and market crimes) and operate on the
same basic principles. The only elements that change are the victims, the scammers, and the
terminology.
Davies has years of experience picking the bones out of some of the most famous frauds of the
modern age. Now he reveals the big picture that emerges from their labyrinths of deceit and
explains how fraud has shaped the entire development of the modern world economy.
Daniel Davies:
Book
Ta
lk—Lying for Money: How
Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of Our World
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